It's an anti-war/anti-nuclear weapons song, and considering it was written in the early 80s, when the threat of nuclear war always seemed potentially imminent, it's pretty intense. There is a line "Is mother proud of little boy today?", which sounds innocent, but when you know that the name of bomb was Little Boy, it changes the whole thing. It is a poppy, catchy song, but when you know the lyrics, it feels a lot more ominous and dark. This song is titled "Enola Gay",Īnd is about the B-29 bomber that carried the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. It's an amazing song, these guys were sample talented, they wrote some of the best "new-wave" stuff in my opinion. I think I heard it at a 7-11 (definitely was at a gas station) and was blown away. For years I thought that, and then in my freshman year of college, I discovered the original. This song gave 80s electronic pop great press, an emphatic rebuttal to the critics who said that nothing elegant nor timeless could ever come from bands who chose synths over guitars. I first heard this played by The Faint, and always thought it was an original of theirs. ENOLA GAY was a defining moment in the OMD canon a synth tour de force told through two alternating, often overlapping synth riffs. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay This song is the 4th or 5th where I discovered it OMD sind auch nach über 40 Jahren konstant gut und gleichzeitig wandlungsfähig.
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